A drifter and a pretty loner team up to find the missing bounty from a long-ago robbery, only to discover they aren't the only ones seeking lost treasure. Jake's father was a bad man who died doing a bad thing. Legend has it the riches he was attempting to hide at the time of his death are still out there, just waiting to be found. When Jake arrives in Covelo, California intending to collect, local lone wolf Laura agrees to watch his back. When everyone from crooked cops to greedy criminals show up seeking the valuable cache, all hell breaks loose.